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Items in this category are unfortunately sold and no longer in stock. We have listed them here so they can be found and used for reference. The category includes some of our sold antique maps, books & prints.
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Daniel’s dream map – Tobias Stimmer
Interesting version of Daniel’s dream map. The map was published in the work “Flauij Josephi, des Hochberühmten Jüdischen Geschichtsschreibers, Historien und Bücher….” by Flavius Josephus. Illustrated by Tobias Stimmer and printed by Theodosieum Rihel, Straßburg.
The map depicts the visualisation of the prophet Daniel’s apocalyptic dream with the four beasts. Decorated with four windheads.
Title: Untitled (Daniel’s dream map)
Date: 1603
Size: 11.0 x 15.0 cm
Sheet size: 33.0 x 21.5 cm
Condition: Good (G)
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Quebec – Giuseppe Maria Terreni
Uncommon view of Quebec from “Gazzettiere Americano”, the Italian edition of the American Gazetteer. “Gazzettiere Americano” was published in Livorno, 1763, by Marco Coltellini. The view is by Giuseppe Maria Terreni.
Title: Quebec
Date: 1763
Size: 18.8 x 27.4 cm
Verso: Blank
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IX.b (Eastern Africa) – Johann Ulrich Müller
Rare miniature map of part of Eastern Africa, set in a page of text, from Johann Ulrich Müller’s Neu-außgefertigter Kleiner Atlas, a work published by George Kuhnen in Ulm, 1702. The maps published in J. U. Müller’s world geography were probably engraved by Gabriel Bodenehr after Sigismund Hipscman.
Title: IX.b
Date: 1702
Size: 6.4 x 7.8
Sheet size: 17.3 x 9.6 cm
Verso: Blank
Condition: Good (G)Ref: Miniature Antique Maps, Geoffrey King
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Norwege – Royaume De Danemarck – C. F. Delamarche / Robert de Vaugondy
Map of Norway shown separately from Sweden, with an inset map of Denmark. By C. F. Delamarche, the successor of Robert de Vaugondy. From the work Nouvel Atlas Portatif, published in Paris. Charles Francois Delamarche acquired the plates of Robert de Vaugondy’s maps from Jean-Baptiste Fortin.
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Sancta Helena – John Huyghen van Linschoten
Rare and early map of the island of St. Helena, decorated with two inset maps of “The West Syde” and “The North Syde”, and 3 sea monsters. The map was published in the English version of John Huyghen van Linschoten’s Itinerario, entitled Discours of Voyages into Y East & West Indies.
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Livonia – Abraham Ortelius (Michel Coignet)
Small attractive map of the eastern Baltic Sea and the Baltic region. The map was published in Abraham Ortleius’ “L’Epitome du theatre de l’vniuers”, which was accompanied by text by Michel Coignet and published by Jan B. Vrients. The series of maps from this edition were engraved by the brothers Ambrose and Ferdinand Arsenius.
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La China E Giapone – Rizzi Zannoni
Uncommon map of China, Korea and Japan by Rizzi Zannoni, from the work “Atlante Novissimo ad uso dei giovani studiosi”.
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Londra – Alphonsus Lasor a Varea
Map of London set in a page of text from Lasor a Varea’s Universus Terrarum Orbis Scriptorum, published in Padua around 1713. Rafael Savonarola published this work under the pseudonym of Alonso Lasor de Varea.
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Tabula Europae IIII – Sebastian Münster
Ptolemaic map of Denmark and Germany by Sebastian Münster, from his work “Geographia Universalis, Vetus et Nova”, published in Basel by Heinrich Petri. This is the first edition and first state.
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L’ Amerique Septentrionale (Sea of the West) – Jean Janvier
Jean Janvier’s fascinating map of North America dated 1762, with the famous Sea of the West (Mer ou Baye de l’Ouest) depicted. Several Indian names and early french forts are also featured on the map.
